Barn and Attached Stable on East Side of Sopwell Home Farm
BARN AND ATTACHED STABLE ON EAST SIDE OF SOPWELL HOME FARM, COTTONMILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347184
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Stable on East Side of Sopwell Home Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ATTACHED STABLE ON EAST SIDE OF SOPWELL HOME FARM, COTTONMILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347184
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Attached Stable on East Side of Sopwell Home Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND ATTACHED STABLE ON EAST SIDE OF SOPWELL HOME FARM, COTTONMILL LANE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND ATTACHED STABLE ON EAST SIDE OF SOPWELL HOME FARM, COTTONMILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15610 05430
Details
TL 10 NE COTTONMILL LANE (SOUTH SIDE OFF) 24/308 Barn and attached stable on east side of Sopwell Home Farm
II GV
Barn and attached stable. Probably first half C18. Timber-framed with weatherboard cladding on brick plinths; right wall of barn of red-brown brick in Flemish bond; plain tile roofs. 3-bay barn with central cart-entry and lower 3-bay stable (probably formerly a cowhouse) on left. Front of barn masked by C20 covered yard which is not of special interest. Brick gable wall has eaves band and stepped gable to raised verge with brick-on-edge coping. Stable has central stable door flanked by slatted windows (most slats removed) Interior: barn: rear winnowing door (apposite cart entry) boarded across. Frame has large scantling unjowelled posts with chamfered arch braces to tie-beam, queen struts, clasped purlins, old rafters, later plank ridge-piece; sole plate, mid-rails, replacement studs and diagonal braces. Brick wall shows position of former braces. Stable has unjowelled posts with long arched braces to wall-plates and tie-beams; queen struts; clasped purlins; old rafters; at junction with barn, collared queen post truss. The left and front walls have C19 studding and braces. The framing of the barn has similarities to that of the barn at Praewood Farm (Hemel Hempstead Road, qv).
Listing NGR: TL1561005430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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